The Compendium of Bheḷa 5.3
Bheḷasaṃhitā 5.3
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- Sanskrit
5.3.1
iyaṃ me śiṣṭaśibikā vaiḍūryamaṇiyantritā | evaṃ pralāpayeccārto gatāyuriti taṃ viduḥ ||
'This is my splendid palanquin fashioned with cat's-eye gems'— / one suffering who babbles thus, him they know as one whose life is gone.
5.3.2
prajvalaty api yo dīpe tama evābhipaśyati | (śabdānvipratibudhyeta cāpūrvāniva nāsti saḥ) ||
He who sees only darkness even when a lamp is burning, / and perceives sounds as if unprecedented, he is no more.
5.3.3
āvākśirāḥ pralambāmi nāma mā parivartaya | manujaḥpralapannevaṃ saptāhaṃ nātivartate ||
'I am hanging head downwards; do not change my name'— / a man babbling thus does not survive a week.
5.3.4
marmāṇi dalitānīva yo ' bhīkṣṇaṃ cātisāryate | pravāhamāṇo durgandhi kuṇapaṃ pūtikaṃ tathā ||
He whose vital parts feel as if crushed and who constantly suffers diarrhea, / straining, foul-smelling, resembling a corpse, and putrid,
5.3.5
tac ca lohitagandhaṃ vāpy athavā matsyagandhikam | kṛṣṇaṃ nīlaṃ vivarṇaṃ vā mumūrṣuś ca sa hocyate ||
smelling of blood or else smelling like fish, / black, dark blue, or discolored—he is said to be about to die.
5.3.6
madhumehī vasāmehī sarpirmehī ca yo naraḥ | bahumehī ca yo jantuḥ sa vai proktaḥparāsukaḥ ||
A man passing honey-like urine, fat-like urine, or ghee-like urine, / and a creature passing copious urine, is indeed said to be dead.
5.3.7
prameheta yadā janturbinduṃ binduṃ savedanam | vāyunā bhinnavastiḥ syād durlabhaṃ tasya jīvitam ||
When a person urinates drop by drop with pain, / and his urinary bladder is torn by wind, his survival is rare.
5.3.8
krimayo bahavo yasya nissaranti śarīriṇaḥ | āturasya śayānasya nauṣadhaṃ tasya sidhyati ||
For an embodied being from whom many worms emerge / while the patient lies down, medicine does not succeed.
5.3.9
ity etāni bhiṣak dṛṣṭvā lakṣaṇāni mumūrṣatām | na cikitsāṃ prayuñjīta yathāmārgaṃcikīrṣakaḥ || ity āha bhagavān ātreyaḥ | iti bhele indriye tṛtīyo ' dhyāyaḥ || || caturtho ' dhyāyaḥ ||
Having seen these signs of dying patients, / a physician wishing to act according to the proper path should not administer treatment. / Thus said the venerable Ātreya. / Thus ends the third chapter in the Indriyasthāna of Bheḷa. / Fourth chapter.
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